Word: coventionalism
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...Covent Garden, England, a cockney porter piled 20 round baskets on top of each other, lifted them, quaking and jiggling, while a vulgar mob disguised its awe under facetiousness, placed them upon his head and, with crossed legs, balanced so, while a camera snapped. ... a record...
Another night, the Bow Street police station over the way from Covent Garden had a telephone call. Reserves, please; the crowd was getting burly. Twenty-five shilling seats ($6) had brought ten guineas ($50). People had heard that that stately young Viennese who sings Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, was given to temperamental outbursts...
...threw her, as his role did not demand, into the footlights of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME. Feb. 9). That such another fall, the traditional corollary of pride, might not misbecome the famed soprano, was also suggested by the press, which commented unfavorably on her irritability. In London, Covent Garden, prostituted all winter as a profitable cinema palace, a dance hall, opened its operatic season. Prince Henry sat in the Royal Box; U. S. Ambassador Houghton was there; Covent Garden regained its pride. The yearly deficits of the Covent Garden Opera Company have run as high...
...remembered a night at Covent Garden, 18 years ago. At that time, she had already enjoyed triumphs in Italy, in Mexico, in Buenos Aires, where the enraptured citizens had fired off cannon and drawn her carriage, snowed under with flowers, through the streets. But Covent Garden was the test stronghold of musical recognition and, though she had sung Lucia over 200 times, her large, dimpled knees, she freely admitted, trembled on that night. After the first act, they trembled no longer; for the Inglesi made her appear 20 times before the curtain, clapping her long, and even cheering...
...Serafin is a conductor of European fame. He was at one time assistant conductor with Toscanini at La Scala. He has conducted in Ferrera; Buenos Ayres; Madrid; Covent Garden, London; the Champs Élysées, Paris. He has taught at the Milan Conservatory, Montemezzi one of his pupils. Aged 46, he looks younger-a serious thick-set Italian, dominating, vital...